Folding package



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Patented July 26, 1932 UNITED STATES ORKNEY P. WILSON AND NOLAN nnooxs, dramatist, eehheseee; sii Iir wr 'soN-g j r ASSIGNOR TO sen) nooxs;,, I

FOLDING Application filed May 4, lefii-l f'i ei'fal Sateen The device forming the subject matter of this application isa crate, box, or container, which is an improvement on the article shown in the co-pending application of O. P. Wilg son, one of the inventors in the present case,

said application having been filed February 3, 1930, and bearing Serial No. 425,614.

The invention aims to provide a combination of parts which will afford a foldable container which can be manufactured as cheaply as a knock-down container, plus the cost of making up the knock-down package, and in a great many instances quite as cheaply as the knock-down package, on account of saving in material, great rigidity resulting, and a general advance in the durability and strength of containers being brought about, without secrificing the ability of the container to be stowed in small compass, when not in use.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view, which Will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation,

Figure 2 is a top plan,

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Figure 2,

Figure 4 is a section on the line 14 of Fi ure 1,

igure 5 is a plan of the top closure,

Figure 6 is an elevation showing the container folded.

The container preferably is made of wood and is of box-like form. It includes ends 1 and sides 2. Each of the parts 1 and 2 may be made in various ways, but, preferably, each of them comprises bottom bars 3 and top bars 4, connected by slats 5. .The'

aredisposed between theIi-sides 2, as

, showii'lin Fi'gure t. Upper metal hinge'p'laite's 6 andlower metal hinge plates 11 are disposed respectively on the upper and "lower" hinge plates bein of approximately reca tangularxform, and having their outer edges dispese dfi u'sh with the outeredges of the sidesan'd' ends, to form corner protectors, aeiFigure-Zgwil-l elea rlyshow;

Securing elements '2 flame-u per hinge plates Gto'the top ba'rs l of the Pivot elements 8 'passthrou'gh the upper" hinge.

platesf6 into=the fl pater ef theiends 1;. The: top bars 4. of the ends-'11 project at 9 beyond. the hinge plates- 6, little way,- when the containeris folded as in Figure fi, sh that theends 5 ofthe said bars will be disposed: close tothe correspondingbars' of the sides-2;

I-he lower-I hinge-plates- 11 are mounted as hereinheforei described in cennection with the e a sehinge latesi T6'1-"1 i than 12, ol anyde'si fed construetion,:.

rests on the inner corners ofthelower hinge plates r11 At ena's at its left hand end beneath the upper hinge plates 6 at the left handend of the container in 'ureQ-i The t0pf-1eisic'nt away at its right hand end-, at"its corners; as shown at 15 in Flgure 5, to clear the inner corners of the upper right hand hinge plates in Figure 2.

6 will have large areas of contact withthe top 14: and with the locking strip 17., the same observation holding true with respect to the lower hinge plates 11 and the bottom. 12. Both the top 14 and the bottom 12 fit within the container, and give it rigidity.

The device is simple in constructiomand is claimed is:

inexpensive to manufacture. It has all of the-advantages of a knock-down crate, and, at the same time, is characterized by great rigidity and strength, not a little of the util- 5 ity arising out of the specific shape of the hinge plates 6 and 11, and the advantages of the rounded corners 10, as hereinbefore explained. 7.

Having thus described the invention, what A foldable container comprising sides and ends disposed at right angles to each other, upper and lower hinge plates disposed respectively on the upper and lower surfaces of the sides and the ends, the hinge plates being of approximately rectangular form and having their outer edges disposed substantially flush with the outer edges'of the sides and ends, to form corner protectors,

2 pivot elements passing through the hinge plates into the upper and lower edges oflthe ends, a bottom resting on the inner corners of the lower hinge plates, a top engaged at one end beneath the upper hinge plates at one end of the container, the stop being cut away at its'corners, at its opposite end, to clear the inner corners of the upper hinge plates at the. opposite end of the container, and a locking strip extended across the said opposite end of'the top, the locking strip being engaged at its ends beneath the lastspecfied upper hinge plates, and means for securing thehinge plates fixedly, and against. swinging movement, to the sides, said fixed 5 mounting of the hinge plates preventing the ends from moving inwardly, bodily, in'a direction transverse to their length, and the approximately rectangular form of the plates preventing relative vertical sagging of the 40 sides and the ends. I In testimony that We claim the foregoing as our own, we have hereto aflixed our signa tures. V.

.ORKNEY P. WILSON,

a NOLAN B. RooKs. 

